Viola Davis Quotes

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• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

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  Dream, Destiny, Please

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• They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

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  Two, Important, Born

  "Silent 'Artist' shouts loudest at Critics Choice Awards" by Natalie Finn, www.today.com. April 18, 2013.

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• When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

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  Passion, Bigger

  "Taraji P. Henson, Viola Davis and Drama Actress A-List Tackle Race, Sexism, Aging in Hollywood" by Stacey Wilson Hunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 10, 2015.

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• Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

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  Healthy, Good Health, Dose

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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  Ideas, Womanhood

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• When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

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  People, Praying, People In Your Life

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• You can't be hesitant about who you are.

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  Hesitant, Who You Are

  "STAGE TO SCREENS: Chats with Intimate Apparel's Viola Davis and New York Newcomer, King Lear's Geraint Wyn Davies" by Michael Buckley, www.playbill.com. March 14, 2004.

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• I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

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  Night, Worry, Up All Night

  The OWN Network, Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.blackamazing.com. February 2012.

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• I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

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  Looks, Want, Fabulous

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.

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  Want, Limits

  "Viola Davis Just Called Out Hollywood For Ignoring Dark-Skinned Women" by Zeba Blay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2015.

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• Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

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  Winning, Opportunity, Color

  "Viola Davis Becomes the First African-American to Win Emmy for Best Actress in Drama" by Inae Oh, www.motherjones.com. September 21, 2015.

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• All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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  People, Needs, Tiny

  Source: www.people.com

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• There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

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  Mother, Children, Hair

  FaceBook post by Viola Davis from May 26, 2016

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• Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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  Struggle, Artist, Feelings

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

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  Desperate Situations, Two, Choices

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.

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  Artist, Together, Mixtures

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• I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

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  Strong, Fall, Dark

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• Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

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  Hate, Capacity To Love, Humanity

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• Relationships change us and make us grow.

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  Grows

  "Viola Davis Exclusive Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2011.

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• I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

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  Inspire, Shapes, Way

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

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  Real, Creativity, Real Life

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• They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

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  Thinking, Heal

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• I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

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  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

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  The End Of The Day, World, Ends

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.

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  Stress, Feelings, Skins

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